AP World History Egypt Flashcards
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7229685742 | Upper Egypt | The Southern Most part of Egypt | 0 | |
7229686113 | Lower Egypt | The Northern most part of Egypt | 1 | |
7229686784 | Black Land= | Good Soil | 2 | |
7229687016 | Red Land= | Bad Soil | 3 | |
7229687532 | Nile River | World's Longest River | 4 | |
7229688938 | The Nile Stretches from | highlands of Central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea | 5 | |
7229691953 | Steps to Civilization | Farming and Food, Trade, Clothes, Language and Writing, War, Construction , Religion | 6 | |
7229699026 | Pharaoh Menes | a king of Upper Egypt, united all of Egypt into one kingdom. | 7 | |
7229701118 | Hieroglyphics | came from Greek words meaning "sacred writings." | 8 | |
7229702353 | Archaic Period | Hieroglyphics were established during the | 9 | |
7229724152 | Egyptian Religion | believed in the concept that you could take it with you. | 10 | |
7229725895 | 3 Middle Kingdom Graves | Surface (with or without coffin) Shaft (usually with coffin) Tomb (coffin & sarcophagus | 11 | |
7229729652 | Menes | Founded the first Egyptian Dynasty | 12 | |
7229734716 | Hyksos | foreign invaders who took over the governance of Egypt, but there was little conflict between the new rulers and the Egyptian people | 13 | |
7229743860 | First Civilizations | 1. Mesopotamian Civilizations 2. Nile River Valley Civilizations 3. Indus River Valley 4. Yellow River Valley Civilization 5. Norte Chico Civilization 6. Olmec Civilization | 14 | |
7229746990 | Indus River Valley Civilization | Arose early in South Asia as did Mesopotamia & Egypt. Rain & melting snow from the mountains provide the river with twice year flooding. Weather shifts dramatically. | 15 |